Claire Gallaugher, BACP

Claire Gallaugher BACP offers steady, practical support for people facing relationship strain, anxiety, grief and parenting challenges. She aims to make each session calm and focused so people can explore difficult feelings and take small steps forward. Claire speaks plainly and works to create a respectful space where worries about attachment, trust or life changes can be talked through.

Claire has worked in the field for 15 years and practises from the United Kingdom. She tailors sessions to each person rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. That means listening first, then agreeing on a direction that fits current needs and day-to-day life.

Her work draws on Attachment-Based, Client-Centred and Cognitive Behavioral methods alongside Emotionally-Focused and Mindfulness approaches. In practice this can mean looking at past relationship patterns, noticing unhelpful habits, learning different ways to respond, and practising simpler ways to calm thinking and strong emotions.

Claire’s areas of focus include relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, anger, addictions, depression and ADHD. She also helps people with more specific issues such as abandonment, blended family challenges, codependency, body image and sleep problems.

Sessions are shaped around what each person needs, with sensitivity to cultural and personal differences. Claire asks questions, offers reflections and suggests practical tools people can try between meetings. She encourages people to take whatever pace feels manageable as they work toward clearer boundaries and steadier relationships.

How Claire’s approaches work online

Claire combines Attachment-Based work with Client-Centred and Cognitive Behavioral ideas to help people address relationship and emotional difficulties. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early and adult relationship patterns and how they affect trust and closeness, which can help with jealousy and commitment issues. Client-Centred work focuses on listening and empathy, giving people space to tell their story and make sense of their feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) identifies thought patterns that fuel anxiety or anger, and offers simple experiments to test and change those habits.

Deciding on the right approach is a team effort. Claire will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try different ways of working, and adjust the plan as progress is made. This collaborative process helps match techniques to what actually helps in day-to-day life.

If you prefer online counselling, check the available session options before booking since the biography does not list formats. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use a quieter time at home or a break at work to attend a session without rearranging their whole day.